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Notebook overheating or no?

post #1 of 21
6/7/05 at 7:20pm
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I have an gateway m680 that I just got from fedex this morning. The first thing I did was install mobilemeter and I got a temp reading of 52C at 800mhz at system startup. I'm like wtf. I set it to full desktop mode and the speed shoots up to 1.86ghz but the temp idles at 60C. I do someone online surfing and it jumps up to 65C. My hard drive, however, has remained a cool 35C and was 28C at startup. Whats the deal? Isn't this a P-M?
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post #2 of 21
6/7/05 at 8:28pm
thats about right
with undervolting.. you could probally lower your temps by 5-6 degrees
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post #3 of 21
6/7/05 at 9:01pm
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Are you sure? Isn't a P-M suppose to lower in temp than my athlonxp and not higher? Shouldn't it be around 30-40C? Bad thermal compound or heatsink placement?
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post #4 of 21
6/7/05 at 9:35pm
Dude PM theanaconda he should be able to help because that sounds way to high.
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post #5 of 21
6/7/05 at 11:02pm
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Originally Posted by silverwolf0
I have an gateway m680 that I just got from fedex this morning. The first thing I did was install mobilemeter and I got a temp reading of 52C at 800mhz at system startup. I'm like wtf. I set it to full desktop mode and the speed shoots up to 1.86ghz but the temp idles at 60C. I do someone online surfing and it jumps up to 65C. My hard drive, however, has remained a cool 35C and was 28C at startup. Whats the deal? Isn't this a P-M?
Looks normal to me........ I have a P770 2.13 ghz and it likes to sit at 60C.......
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post #6 of 21
6/7/05 at 11:32pm
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Lol. Well it was a hot day but my desktop averaged only 35C and my notebook 60C. I will try undervolting it. I called gateway and they said I would have to send it in and the box and shipping cost $44! Well its not burning yet so hopefully I won't need that moomoo box...
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post #7 of 21
6/9/05 at 6:03am
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Ok the heat is really getting to me. I can't even move it around without feeling like I'm carrying around a hot iron. I will send it soon for repair or whatever. I hope I just got a lemon and gateway's coveted quiet/cool m680 isn't going down in quality.
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post #8 of 21
6/9/05 at 6:44am
send it back and get a new one...and have Gateway pay the shipping. Be firm.
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post #9 of 21
6/9/05 at 8:56am
I second that notion. You just bought that lappy make them pay the shipping. It's the least they can do.
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post #10 of 21
6/9/05 at 9:28pm
Many machines' fan controls will assume that the user would rather have a quiet system than an ice-cold one, and leave the fans off until the CPU temperature reaches a certain level. Even a Pentium-M running at minimum frequency will heat up if it has no cooling.
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post #11 of 21
6/9/05 at 9:54pm

CHC temp reading accurate ????

I wonder how accurate the temp readings from the "Centrino Hardware Control" program are ?????????

I guess there must be some temp. sensor mapped at a system I/O address somewhere on the motherboard ?????

It says my lappy is at 58 C but the case feels barely warm ?????
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post #12 of 21
6/9/05 at 10:07pm
i've used different programs to monitor the temperature.. they are all the same.. i guess they are getting the reading directly from the motherboard/cpu ..
i have to say my laptop runs cool but still not what i expect it to be, it sits at about 50-52 degrees celcius with music running, browser and minimal stuff... and about 47-48 idle @ 800mhz.. at 2.4ghz it sits at about 57-58degree celcius..

if i run my processor at 400mhz fsb (600mhz min, 1.8ghz max) i can undervolt more and @600ghz .7volts, it idles at around 42 degrees and 1.8ghz sits at like 50 degrees.. and never get over 58 degrees full load..

i'm just wondering why at 600mhz, it sits at approx 44 degrees all the time while at 800mhz, it sits at 50 degrees... quite a difference for low speeds like that
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post #13 of 21
6/9/05 at 10:18pm
I have Z71v and my Hard Drive temp is 42 C is this normal or a bit high?
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post #14 of 21
6/9/05 at 11:47pm
thats about normal.. running on battery, my CPU runs below 40 degrees and harddrive is at 35 degrees with a lot of stuff running.. i guess the GPU is heating up the overall system.. on battery, the GPU is set for battery optimized, which underclocks the card a lot..
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post #15 of 21
6/10/05 at 1:00am
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Originally Posted by 1CenT

if i run my processor at 400mhz fsb (600mhz min, 1.8ghz max) i can undervolt more and @600ghz .7volts, it idles at around 42 degrees and 1.8ghz sits at like 50 degrees.. and never get over 58 degrees full load..

i'm just wondering why at 600mhz, it sits at approx 44 degrees all the time while at 800mhz, it sits at 50 degrees... quite a difference for low speeds like that
Power consumption is proportional to core voltage TIMES clock speed. Both reductions save you power, which is why speedstep (or, in my case, powernow) help so much.

I get 3 hours at 800 MHz, 50 minutes at 2.2 GHz.
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post #16 of 21
6/10/05 at 3:32pm
I guess every Lappy is different, depending on a great many variables....... the exact components in the notebook, the size, speed, and number of the fans, the thermostat setting for engaging the fan(s), the available air intake, the cubic volume inside the case, the component layout, etc, etc, the speed of the cpu, video board, and hard drive...... too many variables.....

The ACPI on my Lappy reports that "critical" temperature is reached at 109 C !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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post #17 of 21
6/10/05 at 3:40pm
This is making me go back to questioning the p-m...
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post #18 of 21
6/10/05 at 8:19pm
P gets MUCH hotter...... and kills the battery MUCH quicker
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post #19 of 21
6/10/05 at 9:28pm
The Pentium-M has a max temp of 100c...
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post #20 of 21
6/10/05 at 9:36pm
Thats only boiling......
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